Seminars
Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.
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Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits
Series: Foster Talks
Speaker: Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG
Simple and multiple linear regression
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Adrian Horner (U. of York)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Building synapses in the hippocampus
Series: Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker: Prof Laura Andreae, King's College
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Not too big and not too small – Bicycle peptides for precision targeted therapies
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Liuhong Chen, Bicycle Therapeutics
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.
The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Laminar 7T fMRI to investigate communication between the hippocampus and neocortex
Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Oliver Warrington (UCL)
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights
The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Cellular and circuit mechanisms of cortical function in humans and rats
Series: Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker: Dr Sam Booker, University of Edinburgh
Venue: Brian Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Categorical Data Analysis
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Tim Denison (U. of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Computational Microbiology of the E. coli cell envelope
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
The Atomic Human
The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Harnessing the principles of cellular resilience for therapeutics
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions
The host for this talk is Varun Warrier
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Clare Buckley - University of Manchester
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Delaying and Measuring ageing
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Ivana Bjedov, University College London Cancer Institute
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Towards understanding adaptive intelligence
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room
Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Avital Hahamy (University College London)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Redirecting innate immune mechanisms against aggregated proteins
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr William McEwan, University of Cambridge UK Dementia Research Institute
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Deconstruction of the social brain
The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Power analysis
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Norah Fogarty - King's College London
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Postdoctoral Researcher Talks
Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology
Analysis of Longitudinal Data
Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex
Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre
How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question
Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link
Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies
The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution
Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Venue: Old Divinity School, St. Johns College
Episodic cognition in cephalopod molluscs
The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
To be confirmed
The host for this talk is Mirjana Boznik
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Autonomy as an engine for wellbeing, engagement and student performance: A gamification approach.
The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Title to be confirmed
The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
To be confirmed
The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology